Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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Love not what you are but only what you may become.
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They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.
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All sorrows are less with bread.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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As ill-luck would have it.
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A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
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The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.
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Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
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There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
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Be brief, for no talk can please when too long.
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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
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Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker.
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When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
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She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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Too much sanity may be madness!
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
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Fair and softly goes far.